Seit Jahren behaupten Forscher, dass die Freundschaften von Männern oberflächlicher und emotional weniger unterstützend sind als die von Frauen, ein Muster, das als „Gender Friendship Gap“ bezeichnet wird. Neue Forschungsergebnisse zeigen jedoch, dass die Kluft größtenteils speziell auf weiße Männer und nicht auf Männer insgesamt zurückzuführen ist.
The gender friendship gap is driven primarily by white men, not a universal difference across groups
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Certainly makes sense to see how it varies cross culturally. Would think a nuclear family focus etc would be part of the story as well as individual/communal tendencies.
Anecdotally, I’m a white guy with a close knit group of emotionally supportive and thoughtful male friends. They’re vulnerable, well-educated, and we’ve all been friends for decades without anyone falling out with anyone.
I would note, of course, that this is talking about America. The degree to which it generalises to other countries will be variable, given it is making it clear that this is a cultural thing.
Honestly not surprised, cultural norms around stoicism hit that demographic way harder.
‘For years we studied mostly white men and found that THEY are the culprits!’
In which case I am glad me an my homies love each other
Why do people have such a bone to pick with male relationships? While the ones I’ve had aren’t really emotionally supportive, they are by far the most meaningful, enjoyable and therapeutic for me. Nothing by against women and the one with my partner is the exception but it’s just not an issue in my mind.
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Oh good. I thought they were gonna say ALL men. Not just me.
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Really? I would die for my closest friends honestly and I thought every man is trying their hardest to be part of a friend group like that.
The study doesn’t really prove that one group is worse at friendships, it just shows a small difference in how certain people answered a limited survey a long time ago.
Ok, the title of your post is so terrible that I don’t even know where to start.
First of all, it feels racist a sexist to say „only women, blacks and latinos have deep meaninful relationships, while white male are shallow“
Say what…
Also, it’s just a survey. Surveys are the least relevant type of a peer-review study. Might be based on misleading questions and measurments. And the answers are always very subjective.
Also also, checking the pdf, the numbers are not that a big difference between groups.
All in all this feels like some sort of fuel for the popular confirmation bias. The fact it has over 300+ demonstrates it’s probably the case.
obviously poorly drawn conclusion is obvious
yakub created them to be masters of tricknology and in dark triad tactics, of course they are like this.
Tell me you dont understand male friendships and you are racist, without telling me you have no understanding of male friendships and are racist.
Its like the time a friend and i were called to our female boss, because we were snitched on by a female coworker, because „you are insulting each other and dont get along“….
The dude is my best friend and i trust him with my life but sure, judge us because you dont make a effort to understand us.
I majored in sociology and its sad to see how much ideology is clouding science these days
This title had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Would be interesting to see how this applies across countries and cultures
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What research? They used an old survey from 90s and claimed it was a scientific evidence. Absolute BS
Just another straight white guy bad article. This sub’s rigor has gone down the shitter.
I’ve had friends that you could talk all night with about emotional stuff and friends that just grabbed your shoulder and made eye contact as a form of support, and that second or so of eye contact said more and felt more supportive than a whole night of talking about nonsense you can’t change, because you know they will be there for you.
Brutal. This sub is hilarious.
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Oh, look, more blatant misandry insinuating that because we don’t act like women we’re inferior
this is kind of the perfect example of fitting data to a preconceived notion.
Also using data from pre smartphone to analyze social relationships now is… a choice
This study simply shows that in the year 2002, the average 19-year-old white guy rated their closeness with their best friend an 8.4 out of 10, while the other groups rated their closeness with their best friend at a 9 out of 10.
Headlines throw away the fact that both of those numbers are pretty great, and instead insist that this 25-year-old data applies today and confirms their priors about white men. This is junk science.
How do they theorize that skin color affects friendships?
Its telling that this ’science‘ is what you choose to post in here.